(Screaming at my aching muscles) I NEVER YIELDED! AND AS YOU CAN SEE, I AM NOT DEAD! Ahem. Yes, I have recovered from my muscle pain and am feeling much better. I hope you enjoy this chapter and the reactions from our lovable cast. So let's do this thing!

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Chapter 4: Rock and Tree

Everyone was feeling very inspired after Ethan showed them the heroes of the different universes and the teens all unconsciously vowed at the same time to be the heroes their world needs, even if it didn't deserve them.

Taiyang and Qrow noticed the resolve on Ruby and Yang's face and couldn't help but smile with pride. Their little girls were growing up and they weren't the only ones. Blake and Weiss, team JNPR, Penny; they all had a vibe to them that showed how affected they were by the other worldly heroes.

"Ok, the screen will start again with the next scene so get comfy everyone." Ethan said before vanishing.

The students and veteran huntsman took their seats and the dark screen lit up.

(on screen)

It was early in the afternoon and Ruby was shown walking through the woods again, this time with a camera and large piece of scrap steel she found. The red cloaked girl was planning to use the steel as bait to lure the giant out so she could snap a photo and have proof to show her mom.

"Hello!" shouted Ruby while banging the metal.

"Come out! Hey big metal guy, I got food here for you!"

"Metal! Crunchy delicious metal! Come and get it!"

After shouting her invitation, Ruby placed the scrap steel next to a stump and ran to hide behind a fallen log with her camera ready. Now all she had to do, was wait.

(off screen)

Weiss glanced at her partner, "You know, you just announced to the whole forest your location, maybe shouting wasn't the best idea. What if a predator finds you?"

"Nah, I doubt it, they noise I made would scare them away. Besides they would most likely try and ambush me at night, not during the day. Dad and uncle Qrow used to take us camping in the woods a lot and taught us about surviving the outdoors" Ruby explained to her friend and partner who now looked more calm.

(on screen)

Hours passed and Ruby never moved from her hiding spot, she was determined to get a picture of the metal man no matter how long it took. She passed the time by humming to herself, taking practice shots with her camera, even taking a photo of herself but was taken off guard by the flash and was momentarily blinded. Soon her eyes started to close and before she knew it, she was asleep.

(35 min later)

Silver eyes slowly opened as Ruby awoke from her nap. Groggily she sat up and glanced at the stump only to see the piece of steel missing. Slowly she backed away but felt her back hit something and after turning around she gasped softly, as the metal sheet was right there and was slightly bent as if something picked it up too hard.

Now full of anxiety, Ruby slowly looked up towards the forest canopy and saw the Iron Giant looming over her.

The silver eyed girl took a fearful step back before turning on her heel and ran as fast as she could.

(boom)

(boom)

(boom)

That was the sound of the giant's footsteps as it began following the fleeing girl at a steady pace and was catching up quickly thanks to its ginormous stride. Ruby ran as fast as her legs could and the sound of the giant's footsteps spurred her on but no matter how fast she ran; the massive being would catch her eventually. She spared a fearful glance back and saw trees being shaken as the giant got closer and closer.

Ruby brought her head back her front, only to see a low hanging branch in her path. With no time to stop the girls face collided painfully with the branch with a sickening crack, flinging her head back and making her fall flat on the ground where she lay unmoving.

(off screen)

"Ouch, that's gonna leave a mark," winced Jaune with sympathy for his fellow team leader's counter-part.

Pyrrha nodded in agreement, "Also the fact that aura is non- existent in that world means injuries will take longer to heal and pain will last for a while depending on the severity of the wound."

Yang had a death grip on her sister the moment she saw her 'other' run for her life through the forest with the giant right behind her. Even though they were told that the giant and Ruby would be friends it was still terrifying to watch her sibling experience fear regardless if she was from another world, she was still her sister and seeing her get hurt from running into the tree branch made her temper rise and made her want punch that tree into oblivion.

As if sensing her sister's anger, Ruby calmly began stroking her long blonde hair, something their mother used to do. Ruby was the only one other than Yang herself who was allowed touch her hair without any consequences. "It's alright sis, I'm fine and I'm sure my on-screen self is fine too. I'm tougher than I look remember."

"I know you are Ruby, but that's not going to stop me from worrying about you. After all, that's what big sisters do."

"And you're the best big sister I could ever ask for," said Ruby with a happy smile.

(on screen)

The Iron Giant had caught up the fleeing girl who was now laying on unconscious the forest floor. The massive metal man stared at the downed girl for a few seconds, seemingly studying her before she started to stir from her slumber.

The first thing Ruby processed when she came to, was the pain coming from her thankfully not broken nose, though it was bleeding a little. The second was the massive shadow that was cast over her. Turning on her belly to look behind her, she saw the giant looming over her prone form. Before she could process another thought the giant crouched down with speed that shocked the young that she instinctively crawled back with her arms raised defensively.

The giant, now crouched low enough for Ruby to stare into its eyes began to slowly fall back until-

(BOOM)

It sat on its behind with a loud boom that shook the earth. Wide-eyed, Ruby noticed the giant was sitting exactly like she was. Deciding to try something, Ruby straitened her legs as she sat and just as she suspected, the giant did the same.

"So I guess you're not gonna hurt me, huh?" asked Ruby with a little trepidation.

Suddenly the giant brought one it's massive hands to Ruby's head. Thinking she was going to be crushed, she covered her head with her arms but after a moment felt no pain. Looking up, she noticed the giant's hand was clutching something and after dropping it she recognised it instantly.

"The shut off switch," she said in disbelief, "You saw me save you," Ruby muttered in awe while the giant just blinked at her.

"So where are you from?" she asked but got no reply, the giant just tilted its head in confusion. "You came from the sky, right? From up there?" she continued and gestured to the sky but the giant just stared up at the sky with an even more confused expression.

"Don't you remember anything?"

She then noticed something on the side of the head of the massive giant. "Maybe it's that bump on your head," she said which made the giant rub the dent that was on its head and make 'hmm' sound as if it was trying to remember how it got the injury in the first place.

(off screen)

"Interesting" said General Ironwood, "It would seem that the giant's memory banks were damaged by its impact when it crashed into the planet's surface. Most of its primary directives seem to have been forgotten and it most likely can only be recovered after repairs have been made to its memory bank."

Penny nodded in agreement, "I agree with that assessment General, damage done to internal systems would take extensive repairs. It would also depend on how advanced the giants design is and how that would affect the repair time," concluded the robo-girl.

"I hope he remembers something; I can't imagine no knowing who I am or where I came from" said Ruby.

Weiss noticed something in Ruby's speech, "Him?"

Ruby looked at Weiss, "Yes, 'him', not 'it'." The giant can obviously feel pain as we've seen and now he's showing confusion and gratitude. So yes I'm calling the giant 'him' and not 'it'.

Weiss just nodded at the explanation while Penny looked at the silver-eyed girl with gratitude and happiness at her acceptance of the fact that she was a not made of 'fleshy bits' as she put it and that she believed the Iron Giant was more than just a machine. The freckled robot turned back to the screen to watch the scene along with everyone else.

(on screen)

Ruby, seeing the giant struggle to remember tried to get him to communicate.

"Do you talk? You know, words? Blah, blah, blah. Can you do that, blah, blah, blah." She asked.

"BLHJABKERG" garbled out the giant as he tried to imitate the girl's speech.

The cloaked girl cringed at the sound but would not give up. "Well you get the idea anyway. Let's see." Ruby then git an idea, she picked up a hand sized rock off the ground and held it up for the giant to see. "See this? This is a rock. Rock."

"Rooock" said giant with a metallic like voice.

Ruby smiled, "Good", she said.

The giant then reached and picked up a massive boulder from the floor. "Rock!" He said confidently.

"Yes!" Ruby cheered.

He then pulled a tree from the ground and showed Ruby, "Rock!"

Knowing she had to correct the massive metal man, Ruby explained, "No, no, this is a tree. Rooock," she gestured to the rock, "Tree," she gestured to the tree. "Get it?"

Giant held up the rock, "This, rock" then held up the tree, "This, tree."

"That's right!" cheered Ruby as she began to pace back and forth while the giant stared at the now excited teen who was rambling to herself. "My own giant robot. I am now the luckiest kid in Vale! This is unbelievable. This is the greatest discovery since, I don't know, television or something! I gotta tell someone. I should call- no! They'll panic. People wig out and shoot when they something big like you."

"Hmm?" Giant hummed, confused.

"Wig out. It means crazy, you know like.." Ruby put her thumbs to her temples and made a crazy expression while garbling funny sounds. The giant quickly imitated her but she quickly made him stop. "No, no! Don't do that! That's the stuff that makes them shoot at you."

(off screen)

Ozpin was very impressed with the maturity his student was showing, "I must say miss Rose; I'm impressed at how your counterpart is handling dealing with the giant. Most people would have called the authorities who would no doubt try and destroy him the first chance they could get due to fear."

"That's just how Ruby is, she doesn't judge or discriminate against anyone no matter who they are. Human, Faunus, Robot, it doesn't matter to her as long as they have feelings she will make sure to treat them equally," Yang praised.

Blake nodded in agreement, "It's true, when she found I was Faunus she didn't treat me any differently. In fact, she called my cat ears cute before begging to pet them."

"Yep, friend Ruby will accept anyone for who they are just as she did with me," said Penny.

Ruby was blushing under all the praise she getting and was struggling to respond. "Th-th-thank y-you all. It's no big deal. I just treat everyone the way I want to be treated." She stuttered out.

"And that's exactly what makes you special Ruby, if everyone had your kindness and understanding then the world would definitely be a better place," said her father while her uncle and everyone nodded in agreement.

"Thanks guys, it means a lot."

"No problem you dolt, now let's continue watching," said Weiss playfully.

(on screen)

(The Mayor's office)

Roman Torchwick was currently in a meeting with the town's mayor and law enforcement officials to explain why he was called to investigate the strange phenomena that was happening in their town.

"Two nights ago, Atlas satellites detected detected an unidentified object entering Remnant's atmosphere but lost contact with it 2 1/2 miles off the coast of Patch. Some assumed it was a large meteor or a downed satellite."

Seeing that he still had their attention, Roman continued, "But Atlas received a call from someone who had an actual encounter with the object. This is no meteor gentlemen; this is something far more serious."

(In the forest with Ruby and the giant)

The red cloaked girl had not stopped pacing at all and was still rambling to herself on what she should do about her new giant friend, who seemed to be falling asleep if it's eyes closing was any indication.

"We can't call Ripley's Believe It Or Not because they wouldn't believe it."

"And…" she trailed off, unknowingly jolting the giant awake. "It's getting dark and if I don't get home soon, mom's gonna wonder where I am and if she comes looking for me and sees you then we got the screaming problem again. So for now, would you, you know just…stay here okay? I'll come back tomorrow" she awkwardly requested.

The giant however stood up and Ruby was once again awed at the sheer size of him. "Whaooo, well goodbye," she greeted and turned to make her way home.

(boom)

(boom)

Came the footsteps of the robot as he followed her. Turning around, Ruby said in a clear voice, "No, no. Me go. You stay. No following." The girl turned and resumed her walking.

(boom)

(boom)

Once again she turned around, "I told you! I'll come back tomorrow! Now stay!"

For the third time she resumed her walk back home, hoping the giant finally listened to her.

(boom)

(boom)

(boom)

"No, no, no! Bad robot!" she screamed in frustration as the giant continued to follow her home.

(off screen)

The students were all laughing at Ruby's predicament, the giant simply wouldn't leave the girl alone.

"HAHAHA! It's like little kid who doesn't to be alone without it's parents," laughed Nora while Pyrrha and Jaune were trying to hold their laughter but were failing miserably and while Ren was the only one composed you could see the hint of the smile that wanted to break out.

"Reminds of the time Ruby wouldn't stop following me around like lost puppy when she was a toddler. Heck she would even climb up and hang on my cloak when my back was turned," chuckled Qrow, much to the embarrassment of the girl in question who turns as red as her name.

"WhywouldyousaythatuncleQrowthatissoembarressing!" said the extremely embarrassed reaper who trying her best to vanish inside her cloak.

Jaune decided to take pity on his fellow leader, "Awe come on Ruby it's not so bad, we all have embarrassing moments from our childhood. If it makes you feel any better my sisters used to do my hair and style it into pigtails when we were younger and I had to pose for pictures."

Everyone was quiet as they processed what the blond knight said. The silence was broken by Yang, "You lie! I demand to see proof of this!" demanded the blonde brawler with Nora especially agreeing and strangely Pyrrha as well.

With a sigh Jaune pulled out his scroll and opened his gallery. After scrolling through his pictures he found the one he was looking for. He held it up for everyone to see. The photo showed seven girls surrounding a couch, all smiling while a dejected Jaune sat in the middle with his hair in pigtails while holding a sign that said 'help.'"

Once again laughter filled the air as Jaune was now the one who was embarrest but he didn't care, as long as Ruby was no longer hiding in her cloak then he would embarrass himself with no shame.

After everyone calmed down and Yang and Nora practically demanding for a copy of the photo, they all relaxed back into their seats and watched the screen.

(on screen)

The quiet sound of the forest was broken by the sounds of the giant's footsteps as he followed the young girl back to her home.

Now completely fed up, Ruby turned back to the giant, "Look you can't go stomping around and you can't come with me. My mom will wig out."

Hearing 'wig out', the giant imitated Ruby's earlier crazy face.

"That's right. So you've got to stay in the forest and I'll bring you some food tomorrow but I gotta go home now."

"So goodbye."

Ruby once again started walking home, leaving a dejected giant standing in the forest. She crossed the railway line and was making her way downhill towards her house when she heard the sound of metal hitting metal. Turning back, Ruby saw the giant crouching by the train tracks, seemingly examining them.

Without warning, the giant sunk his teeth into the tracks and pulled them apart and was about to start eating but was halted by Ruby's voice.

"Hey wait a minute! What do you think you're doing?" she asked, outraged. "Look at this mess!" she pointed to ruined track. Suddenly the alarms started going off which meant a train was about to pass through but with the track now ruined it would definitely derail.

"Put it back! Put it back right!" ordered Ruby in a panic. "Help me! o need your help!" she grunted while trying to move the track back to its place.

Giant finally understood and with no effort pushed the track back down into place but the railways were still separated.

"Good, good!" said Ruby but the horn from the train made her face pale because it was nearly there!

"Put them together! Like this." She showed with her hands. The giant understood the gist of what Ruby wanted and managed to reattach on section but was struggling with second one.

"Ok that's good enough, let's go!" said Ruby hurriedly before running off the track but the giant was still crouched down, trying to reattach the track. "What the- -?"

"That's fine! Leave it alone! The train is coming! The train is coming! Come on, let's go!" pleaded Ruby with fear and desperation.

The giant didn't seem to hear the cries of the girl as he too focused to fix the damage he caused.

(Click)

The track was finally reconnected, but the train far too close to dodge.

The giant gave a gasp as he saw the light of the speeding train right in front of him, but there was nothing he could as train was upon him.

(screen darkens)

Everyone was on the edge of their seat as they were about to witness a head on collision between the train and the giant but just as it was about to happen the screen went dark.

"What the hell just happened!? We need to see what happens next!" exclaimed Yang angrily with her hair beginning to flame and her eyes turning crimson.

"Yeah! You can't leave us on a cliff-hanger like that!" Nora loudly shouted while everyone else also felt anger at the sudden stop of the viewing.

"Ethan! Get your spooky ass in here right now and turn on the screen!" shouted Yang, momentarily forgetting just who she was ordering.

A flash lit up the theatre and their host was once again with them. "You called?" he asked nonchalantly with a cheeky smile on his face which seemed to anger them further.

"Now before you scream and shout at me, remember I told you that I can only activate the screen for a certain amount of time before I have to regain enough energy to show you more. Well I ran out of juice right at that moment so I apologise for that but as you know I won't take long to recharge so just be patient, okay."

Now calmed down, everyone nodded got up to get refreshments.

"Oh and Yang. If you call my ass 'spooky' again, I'll remove every speck of hair from your head make sure it won't ever grow back. Capisce?"

The buxom blonde paled rapidly and nodded vigorously before apologising over and over while clutching her hair like a lifeline.

"Hehe, just messing with you blondie. I wouldn't do that, but seriously, never call my ass 'spooky' again. I'll see you all when I've recharged, hahahaha." Ethan flashed away while laughing like a maniac which made everyone feel uneasy, especially Yang who regained a little colour in her face.

"He's completely insane, isn't he?" she asked and everyone nodded but a note suddenly appeared in her lap. She picked up and read out loud.

"I'm not insane, I've been checked." And at the bottom of the page was chibi drawing of their host showing a 'piece' sign.

No one said anything but they all agreed that he was definitely insane.

END.

A/N: What is up people of Earth as well as those not from Earth (I now we're not alone in the universe, it's obvious ). Anyway my belief in aliens aside, I'm happy to report that my muscle pains are no more and I have a clean bill of health and I hope all of you are doing well too.

I want to thank you all again for enjoying my story and your positive reviews fill me with so much joy. Remember I'll always accept positive reviews as well as constructive criticism as that is a sign of what I need to improve on and if I'm doing something right.

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So stay safe, keep well and I'll see you all next time! Ja Ne!